Losacker Quotes & Sayings

The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. — Jorge Luis Borges

The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end, — Charles Wheelan

Why is it," says Vohannes as he walks her to the door, "that whenever we finish our business, it feels like neither of us got what we wanted?" "Perhaps we conduct the wrong sort of business. — Robert Jackson Bennett

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. — Lewis Thomas

I've been both a journalist and a politician, and I can tell you it is more fun to ask the questions than have to answer them. — Michael Ignatieff

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. — Michael Bennett

The devil is real. He lives inside C programs. — Philip Greenspun

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them. — David Ricardo

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do — Elbert Hubbard